So you have a new home and you are worried about somebody breaking in and stealing your possessions. Maybe you have read stories about how thieves cruise through neighborhoods on trash day looking for boxes that televisions and stereo equipment come in, so that they know that inside your home is some new equipment that they can sell easily for large amounts of cash. Maybe you have been hearing stories about thieves targeting homes in your neighborhood because they are easy marks, or have large populations of people that work during the same times of day. Bad people are generally lazy, and will break into the homes that provide them the easiest access and the least amount of risk of being caught. For this reason, the best thing that you can do to protect yourself and your family is to install some security measures.

Alarm systems are good, and they will generally alert either yourself or a private security company if they are tripped. The private security company will quickly assess the situation and choose to contact the police or not. If you are the one being notified through your computer or smart phone, you will then need to make a quick determination if there is an actual intruder or if it was tripped by something else. No matter what, these determinations are being made after the person has gained entry, and are designed to assist authorities in catching the person either before they leave, or getting them on camera to provide police with a description. These measures are not designed to keep people out of the house, they are designed to help catch them once they have entered.

A better method of security is prevention. This means utilizing systems that actually stop the person from ever entering the home in the first place, instead of just telling you once they are inside. The best method of securing a home is the installation of iron security doors into the entryways, and placing iron bar coverings over the windows. This will make it so that a thief would need to take the time and make the noise necessary to cut through iron in order to gain access. Thieves generally smash a window or kick in a door in order to gain easy access, and iron security doors make this nearly impossible. It would take a long time to cut through the iron, and most bad guys are not going to spend the time or effort to get in, and instead will move to the next easy target. Prevention of access is actual safety, whereas an alarm just functions to try and stop them once they are committing a crime. Because Las Vegas is seeing a rise in crime as our population grows, looking into protecting yourself and your home is a good idea. Don't be the victim, be the one that they decide not to victimize.

Security of you home is almost always one of the top priorities of a home owner or renter. The protection of your personal property against break-ins, as well as the prevention of personal harm due to someone entering your home is one of the most important aspects of the space you live within, so naturally home owners want to do everything in their power to prevent unwanted entry to their homes or businesses both when they are there and when they are not. This is best accomplished through the use of tools that are integrated into the home for these purposes, generally in the form of alarm systems or security measures that are meant to slow down entry. The combination of these two types of devices is generally the best prevention method.

Alarms integrated through your home which will alert either a private security company, the police or yourself if an area is breached are one of the most effective measures of preventing theft or harm. These cameras and alarms will either scare the person with the use of a loud alarm sound on the premises, or potentially accompany this sound with a notification to some authority or service. Cameras can now notify you of movement and sound inside or outside your home through your phone in addition to notification of the police, but these measures are essentially put in place once a person has already entered, or is attempting to enter. The idea is to either scare them away with a fear of being caught, or get the police to the house fast enough to catch them in the act. The alarm system itself actually does nothing to make the break in more difficult, it only makes it more possible to catch the person who has broken in.

Prevention of access to the home is even more effective than an alarm system. Thieves want to act without being noticed, and as a result want to act as quickly as possible. By creating security measures that actually prevent access to the home, or slow it down considerably, you will prevent the person from ever getting inside in the first place, which is a line of defense that no alarm can promise. This is accomplished through the use of security gates and door, or security bars mounted over windows. These types of measures make it far more difficult for a person to enter a home, because the kicking in of a door or the breaking of a window is not enough to gain access. They will have to spend time and make noise actually cutting through or removing the security measures that have been attached to the house itself, and most criminals are not going to spend the time doing this as well as making noise during the attempt.

The best access prevention tools that can be used as part of your security system are iron security doors. These are typically seen in the form of ornamental iron combined with structural iron pieces welded together to form a barrier to entryways that is both beautiful and functional to prevent access to the home. A person would literally have to cut through iron bars in order to gain access, which is going to prevent nearly any person from making the attempt. When iron security doors are places over all entryways in the home, as well as iron security measures placed n windows and any other entryway, you will create a situation that makes it nearly impossible for anyone unauthorized to enter the residence. It is the kind of piece of mind that an alarm cannot provide. Yes, it is nice to know when someone has broken in, but wouldn't it be better to prevent the break in all together?

Las Vegas is a wonderful place to raise a family, and anyone who has been in Las Vegas for any length of time will tell you that there are specific areas that are a better choice than others if security is your goal. Naturally nobody wants to be broken into and have their things stolen or their family harmed, so most people will choose their living conditions based upon the most security they can afford. This will probably be a combination of a home in the area that is judged as the safest that the person can afford, and the additions of security elements like cameras, alarms and security doors and windows. Generally, the safer the area is in general will dictate the amount of additional security elements that are installed after the move in, but rest assured that there is no such thing as a completely crime free area. Even the exclusive gated communities and areas that have security patrols have issues with crime, and a home owner must do everything in their power to protect themselves as much as they can. This is why you will see high level iron gates and security doors in expensive homes just as much as you will see them in lesser expensive homes. Generally the feeling of needing something to dissuade a break in is not relegated to the lower income areas, and the only real difference between iron security doors on million dollar homes is that they are more ornate. No matter what your income level, a custom iron security door will add to your home's safety and your personal feeling of security. The more difficult it is for a thief to enter your home, the more chance there is that they will simply choose a different house that is easier to access. This is the role of the iron security door.

In Las Vegas, a screen door can be the difference between enjoying those perfect days just before summer gets really hot and those perfect days after summer has ended. Sure it gets too hot in the summer to have your door opened, and it gets too cold in the winter, but there are a few months in there where a screen door will give you that perfect temperature inside your house without running the heat or the air conditioner. Everyone in Las Vegas knows that heating and cooling your house can get really expensive, so any chance we have to save some money when the weather is perfect outside needs to be taken. A screen door will allow you to have a barrier for animals or insects that the breeze can still pass through, and we all know how much we need that from time to time. Keep your door open for just a few hours in Las Vegas and you are probably going to find flies, mosquitoes and worst of all scorpions in your house. Anyone who has ever found a scorpion will attest to the value of a screen door.

Any house with an entry from one point to another is going to need to put a gate up if they are going to prevent children or pets from getting in or out, or preventing unwanted people or animals from coming in. A gate is a pretty simple thing, just some form of barrier that separates the two areas and which can be closed so that there is difficulty getting across. The more elaborate and secure the gate is will depend on it’s necessity. If you have an animal that has a propensity to squeeze through the openings, then you will need a gate with more rails. If you have an area that is a possible weak spot where criminals could enter into your personal space, then maybe more security aspects will need to be built in. The gate itself is defined by the function and role it will play, and how well it does it’s job will be defined by the builder.

There are many different levels of homes in Las Vegas, ranging from small track homes that are built as starters for lower income people to get into the market, all the way up to multi-million dollar custom homes that are designed from scratch to cater to the every whim of the owner. You can find homes of all different types and construction styles, however the majority of homes that you will find that were built over the course of the last 20 years generally have a few features that are the same. Most of the homes are made of stucco and most of them will have roofs that are made of clay tiles. These choices are specifically designed for the desert climate in order to better insulate and protect against the extreme heat in Las Vegas. While the style of the home will usually be influenced by specific climate aspects, these can be used in many different configurations and styles that will reflect the personal tastes of the owners as well as the levels of functionality and security that are desired. The choices are truly endless, as long as you care about the home you live in. No matter what economic level you operate on, there are ways that you can improve your existing home without breaking the bank. Even small improvements to your home will give you the personal satisfaction of knowing that you made life better for yourself and at the same time increased the resale values that you would see if you decided to sell and move.

​People in Las Vegas will often struggle with ways that they can upgrade their homes without breaking the bank. A new kitchen can run more than 20 thousand dollars, and even though it will probably add a lot of value to the home, it is difficult to come up with that kind of money in order to make an improvement to the home, especially when it is not completely necessary in order to function properly. Upgrades of almost any kind are this same type of issue, difficult to manage until they are completely rendered without function because there is always somewhere else that needs the money allocated to it. One of the ways that this mentality can be overcome is when it is not a replacement of an existing item that is working properly, but instead is an addition to the home in the form of a built in. A “built in” is an item that would stay with the home upon it’s sale, ultimately adding to the value that the home currently has if it is sold to another party. Built ins will also generally add some sort of new beauty or function to the house that it did not have before, so even if you are not selling anytime soon it will make your enjoyment of the space be improved. Examples of built ins include plantation shutters or cabinetry that is connected to walls.

So you have purchased a home in Las Vegas, and you are considering some improvements that might not only add some value to the home, but also give you a little piece of mind. One of the easiest ways to improve your home's resale value is to add to the security measures that have been taken by any previous owners. This might seem a little unfortunate because we all want to think of our neighborhood as safe, but what you have to think about is the fact that crimes happen in good neighborhoods as well as bad ones.